Mokřina (Krottensee) (Miocene of Czech Republic)

Also known as Mokrina

Where: Czech Republic (50.1° N, 12.5° E: paleocoordinates 50.3° N, 11.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cypris Formation, MN 4 (16.9 - 16.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - small; lithified, green marl

• Cheb/Sokolov basin system. The first significant depositional episode in the Cheb Basin coincides with the deposition of late Oligocene-Miocene clastics in the whole extensional system of the Ohře Graben, controlled by E-W – trending depocenter.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by Ottomar Novák in 1874

• Repository: National Museum in Prague

Primary reference: O. Novák. 1878. Fauna der Cyprisschiefer des Egerer Tertiärbeckens. Sitzungsberichte der Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften 76:71-96 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 117612: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 25.09.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Hemiptera - Tingidae
"Monanthia flexuosa n. sp." = Dictyla novaki
"Monanthia flexuosa n. sp." = Dictyla novaki Drake and Ruhoff 1962 lace bug
 Hemiptera - Cydnidae
Brachypelta rotundata n. sp.
Brachypelta rotundata n. sp. Novák 1878 burrowing bug
 Hemiptera - Lygaeidae
Lygaeus mutilus n. sp.
Lygaeus mutilus n. sp. Novák 1878 milkweed bug
 Hymenoptera - Apidae
Bombus crassipes n. sp.
Bombus crassipes n. sp. Novák 1878 bumble bee
 Hymenoptera - Formicidae
Myrmica nebulosa n. sp., "Pheidologeton bohemicus n. sp." = Carebara bohemica, Formica buphthalma n. sp.
Myrmica nebulosa n. sp. Novák 1878 ant
"Pheidologeton bohemicus n. sp." = Carebara bohemica Novák 1878 ant
Formica buphthalma n. sp. Novák 1878 ant
 Neuroptera -
Neuropterites depertitus n. gen. n. sp.
Neuropterites depertitus n. gen. n. sp. Novák 1878 lacewing
 Coleoptera - Scarabaeidae
Melolontha solitaria n. sp.
Melolontha solitaria n. sp. Novák 1878 scarab beetle
 Diptera - Tipulidae
Tipula expectans n. sp., Tipula angustata n. sp.
Tipula expectans n. sp. Novák 1878 crane fly
Tipula angustata n. sp. Novák 1878 crane fly
 Diptera - Ptychopteridae
Ptychoptera deleta n. sp.
Ptychoptera deleta n. sp. Novák 1878 phantom crane fly
 Diptera - Sciaridae
Sciara martii n. sp.
Sciara martii n. sp. Novák 1878 dark-winged fungus gnat
 Diptera - Bibionidae
"Bibiopsis egerana n. sp." = Penthetria egerana, "Protomyia bohemica n. sp." = Penthetria bohemica, "Bibiopsis imperialis n. sp." = Penthetria imperialis, Bibio elegantulus n. sp., Bibio formosus n. sp., Plecia quaesita n. sp.
"Bibiopsis egerana n. sp." = Penthetria egerana Novák 1878 march fly
"Protomyia bohemica n. sp." = Penthetria bohemica Novák 1878 march fly
"Bibiopsis imperialis n. sp." = Penthetria imperialis Novák 1878 march fly
In collection of GBA Wien
Bibio elegantulus n. sp. Novák 1878 march fly
Bibio formosus n. sp. Novák 1878 march fly
Plecia quaesita n. sp. Novák 1878 love bug